allyson batis
about allyson
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Allyson Batis (she/her) has a Bachelor’s in English with a writing concentration from Luther College and was a 2020 Artist-in-residence at Everwood Farmstead. She has been published in Adelaide Magazine. She is currently working on her novel and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She can be found on Instagram at @allysonnbatis and Substack at allysonbatis.substack.com
read my work
"Necessary"
Adelaide Magazine
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The Orphaned Hero’s Father’s friends did not tell him this. They tried to tell The Orphaned Hero stories of the war, stories The Orphaned Hero could not quite believe. The stories were brutal. These men were not heroes. They were rebels. Their fight and his parent’s fight was not glorious. They were fighting against evil itself, as common and flat as it was. They did not tell him about his mother’s capabilities. They knew of her as The Orphaned Hero’s devoted mother, their friend’s spiky wife, and a smuggler who, while useful and clever, was of no true consequence to the war. The Orphaned Hero believed that his mother’s contribution to the war began with falling in love and ended with her protection of him. No one alive- her handlers, her informants, her husband- could tell him differently.
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